{"title":"JULIE HIMEL | AWE STRUCK","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecember 4 - 20, 2025\u003cbr\u003eOpening First Thursday, December 4, 6 - 8 pm\u003cbr\u003eArtist in Attendance\u003cbr\u003eArtist Talk, Saturday, December 6, 12 pm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAwe Struck is a series born from a personal and visceral response to the natural world—places where beauty overwhelms, silence roars, and the ordinary dissolves into the sublime. These paintings are not just depictions of landscape; they are experiences of rupture—moments where the familiar falls away and something larger, stranger, and more luminous asserts itself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe title Awe Struck serves as both a descriptor and a tension. “Awe” speaks to the reverence and wonder inspired by nature’s immensity—towering skies, fractured light, ancient trees, shifting waters. But “Struck” reminds us that awe is not passive. It arrives with force. It is a jolt—a disruption—a breaking open. This duality runs through the work. The paintings evolve through layers of intuitive gesture and deliberate fracture, echoing the way awe enters the body: suddenly, and without permission.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn each piece, I seek to capture that collision—where perception is pierced, and the veil of apathy is torn. I want to hold onto that moment of contact, when the external world imprints itself on the internal, when seeing becomes feeling. These are not tranquil landscapes. They are thresholds. They carry the pulse of immediacy, the rawness of presence, the ache of beauty too large to name.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThrough paint, I explore how awe can undo us in the best way—how it strikes to the core and leaves us changed. In a time when disconnection is easy, these works are a call back to sensation, to wonder, and to the fierce, necessary act of paying attention. \u003c\/em\u003e- Julie Himel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor a listing of more available work and biographical information, please visit Julie Himel's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fosterwhite.com\/collections\/julie-himel\" title=\"Julie Himel | Main Page\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eprimary page\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on our website.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Julie Himel CV at Foster\/White Gallery, Seattle, WA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bau-xi.co\/seattle\/Himel%20CV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJulie Himel CV\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"both-far-and-close","title":"Both Far and Close","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUsing both real and imagined places for her inspiration, Julie Himel creates pathways and landscapes that invite the viewer to step into her dreamlike environments. 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